Exploring the Ring CD The Ring as well as a moving

as well as a moving story of passion and grace for anyone who has dared to dream of a different life

America’s first Children’s Poet Laureate has written all-new verses to accompany the composer Camille Saint-Saëns’s The Carnival of the Animals

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A note to parents and teachers by Judith Bachleitner

and Leo Nucci star in this 2005 Vienna State Opera production directed by Otto Schenk

Exploring the Ring CD The Ring as well as a movingExploring the Ring, with Perry Lorenzo, former Seattle Opera Education Director. Recorded for Seattle Opera's 2001 Ring, these talks, punctuated with Lorenzo's trademark wit, provide insight into the rich musical, dramatic, and historical contexts of Wagner's masterpiece. This CD set illustrates why opera companies from San Francisco, Chicago, New York even Bayreuth frequently called on Lorenzo's lecturing talents. 4 disc set. In English.